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According to the French research company XiTi Monitor, Firefox has an 11.78 percent share of the browser market in North America, while in Europe, according to XiTis numbers, Firefox is being adopted at an even quicker pace, with a 14.83 percent market share.

Indeed, in some countries—Finland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Poland—more than 20 percent of users have switched the browser they primarily use from Internet Explorer to Firefox.

According to Mozilla President Mitchell Baker, Schroepfer will initially focus on product planning and delivery for Mozillas upcoming new releases, such as Thunderbird 1.5, Firefox 1.5 and Gecko 1.9. Once thats in hand, hell work on managing Mozillas development employees.

He will have his hands full at first.

This week, the Foundation announced that instead of releasing Firefox 1.1 this fall, it will be releasing Firefox 1.5. This news was first misinterpreted by some as meaning that Firefox 1.1 had been "scrapped."

The truth of the matter, according to Mozillas Chris Beard, is that the "change has been made to better reflect the level of fixes and feature enhancements which will be included in these releases."

In addition, it will be built on the foundation of the newest version of Mozillas Gecko graphics rendering engine. That should give Firefox a performance boost. It will also give it support for such newer Web standards as CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3) and SVG (scalable vector graphics).